Top 45 Social Angel Investors in India in July 2025
A list of 45 angel investors that invest in Social startups based in India. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Social companies from India. We update this investor list every month.Top 45 Social Angel Investors in India in July 2025
Investor | Social India investments |
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Ramakant Sharma | 3 |
Kunal Shah | 3 |
Vignesh Ramanujam | 2 |
Shrishti Sahu | 2 |
Rudy Gopalakrishnan | 2 |
Kashish Sharma | 2 |
Maninder Gulati | 2 |
Rajan Anandan | 1 |
Rajan Anandan | 1 |
Amrish Rau | 1 |
Haresh Chawla | 1 |
Mohit Daga | 1 |
Anupam Mittal | 1 |
Vikas Malpani | 1 |
Giri Malpani | 1 |
Nataraj Sindam | 1 |
Shivashish Chatterjee | 1 |
Sajid Rahman | 1 |
Harpreet Singh Grover | 1 |
Raghunandan G | 1 |
Gaurav Munjal | 1 |
Abhishek Goyal | 1 |
Vivek Ramaswamy | 1 |
Gokul Rajaram | 1 |
Prabhu Rangarajan | 1 |
Brian Norgard | 1 |
Rohit M.A. | 1 |
Muthukumar A(M2P) | 1 |
Vaibhav Domkundwar | 1 |
Jasminder Gulati | 1 |
Yuvraja C Singh | 1 |
Fabrice Grinda | 1 |
Prasanna Sankar | 1 |
Jitendra Gupta | 1 |
Samuel Choi | 1 |
Beerud Sheth | 1 |
Sweta Rau | 1 |
Damandeep Soni | 1 |
Ryan Valles | 1 |
Sumit Jain | 1 |
Kris Nair | 1 |
Pras Hanuma | 1 |
Rajat Gupta | 1 |
Phanindra Sama | 1 |
Lalit Keshre | 1 |
Ramakant plays a central role in driving all technological innovations that form the backbone of Livspace while also leading our operations team. Before founding Livspace, Ramakant was a core team member and Vice President of Engineering at Myntra, a leading fashion eCommerce startup in India (acquired by Flipkart). Ramakant, graduated from IITKanpur, and holds an MBA from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- OUTZIDR — Trendy GenZ western wear. Vacation, Party & Casual Wear. FREE Shipping on All Orders. COD Available. Easy 7-Days & Returns. Code OUT400 for FLAT 400 OFF.
- Rabitat — Rabitat is a consumer product company that offers creative lifestyle solutions for customers through trusted brands. Merlin Brands was founded in 2016 and was headquartered in New Delhi, India.
- Beyond Appliances — Beyond Appliances want to create appliances that not only make your culinary adventures more accessible but also elevate your kitchen environment to a place where you will truly enjoy being.
Kunal Shah
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Mugafi — Unlu offers pre-recorded certified online courses taught by Indian celebrities. Join us now and take your career to new heights by enjoying unlimited access to our videos.
- Lorien Finance — Lorien Finance is a cross-border FinTech platform providing affordable student loans and retail banking services to immigrants (students and temporary workers) moving to the US.
- Presentations.AI — Create stunning PowerPoint presentations in seconds with Presentations.AI - the ultimate AI presentation maker. Just type your idea and watch as we craft a professional PPT for you. Perfect for all: businesses, educators, and hobbyists. Dive in now, start for free!
Entrepreneur — Founder, Investor, Board Member, Operator, Advisor, Observer, Partner, Seeker, Friend.
Publicly active in private markets & privately active in public markets.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Information Technology, Supply Chain Management
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Basis — Basis is a financial services app designed for Indian women. Get 1:1 consultation, join communities & more. Join 1L+ women. Sign up Basis Now for Free
- M2P Fintech — Core banking, lending and payment services from the leading fintech startup in India. We empower fintechs, banks, and businesses with custom APIs for a wide range of financial services
- The Happy Company ® — Our mission at Chaicup is simple: to be among India's most trusted food & beverage brands. We want to put a smile on everyone's face when they eat or drink, and to be their cup of happiness. Chaicup's vision is of simple, delicious, and sustainable foods & beverages. We leverage unique product & customer insights to marry a world-class supply chain with a fast, friendly experience for both retail and enterprise.
entrepreneur and investor in tech start-ups, crypto and public markets. Founded a fintech company, and was a part of the Investment Team of Lumis Partners (PeopleStrong, TalentEdge, Sheroes etc). Headed Startup Programs for Facebook for South Asia & India. Early backer of companies like Plum (health insurance for SME employees), Clickpost(logistics tech), Rupifi (credit for SMEs), WorkApps (Enterprise Collaboration), Chingari (Social Video), Kutumb (social communities for Bharat), DelightChat (customer support for D2C brands), 10Club (D2C e-commerce), UrbanYogi (mental health)
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Investment focus
- Internet, FinTech, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, Singapore, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Mugafi — Unlu offers pre-recorded certified online courses taught by Indian celebrities. Join us now and take your career to new heights by enjoying unlimited access to our videos.
- Mugafi — Create captivating stories, iconic characters, and legendary universes for the world to witness.
- Thermoflyde — Refractory
Rudy Gopalakrishnan - Executive @ Fidelity
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Investment focus
- Social, Content, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Murmur App — Artikel Berita Bola Terbaik Di Dunia
Kashish Sharma is the Chief Equity Officer at EquityList. He attended Vellore Institute of Technology.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- OSlash — Transform long URLs into memorable shortcuts. Make information easy to access, find, & share with others in an instant with a complete URL management solution
- Even — Even is a health tech company and healthcare provider that partners directly with the top hospitals in the country to offer you unlimited diagnostics, consultations, and 50 lakh worth of hospitalisations all with one monthly subscription cost.
- Chronicle — The modern format of storytelling
Maninder Gulati joined Lightspeed Advisory Services India in 2012. He brings over eight years of operating, business building, entrepreneurship and consulting experience to the firm.Prior to Lightpseed, Maninder was an Associate at McKinsey & Company. At McKinsey, Maninder worked on several growth strategy and implementation engagementsacross various sectors including financial services, organized retail, digital music, data centers and building security/automation.Before McKinsey, Maninder co-founded a voice based life-streaming platform – lifeinlines.com, which allowed users to create a digital diary of their life. Prior to this entrepreneurial venture, Maninder worked at ITC Limited, India’s largest FMCG company. At ITC, Maninder was a part of the core team that launched ITC’s personal care business and he spearheaded key organization transformation initiatives such as Six-sigma for the tobacco business.Maninder graduated with a Dual degree (B.Tech and M.Tech) in Chemical Engineering from IIT Bombay, where he held key leadership positions including that of Head of ‘The Entrepreneurship Cell’. He holds an MBA from ISB, Hyderabad, where he was a part of the Dean and Merit list.
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bachatt — Bachatt is a daily savings led financial services platform. Bachatt aims to address a critical need for over 30 crore self-employed individuals in India. while self-employed individuals earn daily, their expenses often require large, infrequent payments, creating a major cash flow challenge. This, coupled with the inherent variability in dailyearnings, makes managing finances extremely difficult.Our vision is to become their trusted daily savings partner, helping them establish financial discipline. This strong foundation will then unlock access to a suite of financial products (loans, high-yield instruments, insurance, etc.) at more favorable terms.
- Fabrito — Fabrito is a B2B fabric marketplace that simplifies fabric sourcing for brands and garment manufacturers seeking reduced turnaround times (TAT), lower minimum order quantities (MOQs), and improved pricing. Fabrito provides a diverse range of readily available fabrics that can be quickly replenished.
- Dodo Payments — Dodo Payments is a FinTech company providing international payment solutions for businesses. It acts as a merchant of record, managing payments, taxes, compliance, subscriptions, and churn. The platform supports over 300 local payment methods in more than 100 currencies across 150+ countries.
As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Smytten — Smytten is an online discovery platform for premium products & services. Smytten also offers assisted shopping, and for the more advanced shopper, customised offers and ability to build their own wishlist for regular purchases.
- Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.
- mirrAR — mirrAR your go to augmented reality company for ECommerce. Experience our platform, solutions & AR software. Transform shopping with augmented reality in E-commerce.
As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Smytten — Smytten is an online discovery platform for premium products & services. Smytten also offers assisted shopping, and for the more advanced shopper, customised offers and ability to build their own wishlist for regular purchases.
- Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.
- mirrAR — mirrAR your go to augmented reality company for ECommerce. Experience our platform, solutions & AR software. Transform shopping with augmented reality in E-commerce.
Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India, Singapore, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Sipay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
- Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.
- Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.
Haresh Chawla - Partner @ True North
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Education
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- FastJobs.io — FastJobs.io envisions a world in which job hunting is completely stress-free and convenient.
- Onmove — Zast is a high speed long distance trucking aggregator enabled through technology.
- Powerhouse91 — Powerhouse91 operates as an eCommerce roll-up platform. Powerhouse91's business model relies on identifying high-potential consumer brands, acquiring, and scaling them through growth capital, shared resources, and e-commerce focused optimizations.
Mohit Daga
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Social, FinTech
- Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Akudo — Akudo is a learning-focused neo bank for teenagers. Akudo offers the best prepaid debit card for teens and kids in India for all online and offline payments.
- CreditDharma — Credit Dharma offers spam-free, personalised, and unbiased home loans. Get the lowest interest rate offers from the top banks and simplify your home ownership journey.
Anupam started his entrepreneurial journey by founding People Group - A New Media & Entertainment group, which includes businesses such as Shaadi.com, Makaan.com, Mauj Mobile, and People Pictures. Today the group is recognized as one of the most innovative enterprises in the country. Besides his operational roles, Anupam is also one ofIndia's most active angel investors.He attended Boston College.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- Gaon — Gaon delivers authentic Indian food flavors.
- HealthFab — Seen on Shark Tank India! Buy GoPadFree period panties & GopainFree Period relief cream online by HealthFab. Shop for best menstrual products!
- Bambinos Learning Solutions Pvt. Ltd. — Join bambinos.live - India's biggest platform to learn English and math for kids aged between 4-12 years.
Vikas Malpani is the CEO and Co-Founder of Leher App, an Indian live streaming platform for Video Discussions. Vikas co-founded CommonFloor.com in 2007 which was acquired by Quikr.com in 2016.
He used to lead the “Apartment Management Software” (Referred to as CommonFloor Groups) division at CommonFloor. Prior to his current stint, Vikasworked with SAP Labs India.He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from VTU, Belgaum.
Vikas was awarded MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35 in 2012.
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Investment focus
- EdTech, Events, Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Airmeet — Host highly customizable virtual and hybrid events to deliver immersive and interactive experiences to your audience. Book a demo today.
- NxtWave — CCBP 4.0 Certification Programs are designed to transform you into highly skilled software professional. NxtWave offers a comprehensive online learning ecosystem to make you Industry-Ready
- Seek Rewards — Connect with brands you love, people you admire and things you seek. Seek brings you personalized offers and deals while earning you real rewards for using the products and services you already love.
Giri Malpani of Malpani Ventures.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Music, EdTech
- Seed, Angel
- India
Portfolio highlights
- ByteLearn — ByteLearn is an AI-powered assistant for math teachers and students in managing curriculum. ByteLearn offers personalized, one on one attention by leveraging artificial intelligence technology and guides students when they get stuck on math problems, enabling them to connect with teachers, and grasp concepts better.
- CreditDharma — Credit Dharma offers spam-free, personalised, and unbiased home loans. Get the lowest interest rate offers from the top banks and simplify your home ownership journey.
- STAGE — STAGE is an Indian language content platform for artist-led entertainment.
Nataraj Sindam
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Financial Services
- Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
- India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Refrens — The most powerful business management platform for B2B service providers in India. Right from building your portfolio to generating leads for your business to manage your invoices etc, we have got you covered.
- ConnectedH — Seeking medical help, in most of the cases, is not the best time in someone’s life. Having personally experienced the problems, we at ConnectedH are trying to make such interactions as simple or as hassle free as possible. Our vision is simple - Connected Healthcare. We connect different sectors of healthcare system and give the patients completecontrol over their information.
- Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.
Shivashish Chatterjee is a Co-Founder of the DMI Group where he is a driving force behind the group’s vision and strategy.A 25-year veteran of international financial markets, Shiv brings a wealth of experience in Global Fixed-Income trading and analytics that complements and informs DMI’s activities. Shiv spent the vast majority of his WallStreet days at Salomon Brothers, a storied fixed-income powerhouse that was eventually acquired by Citigroup Inc. One of the youngest-ever Managing Directors at Salomon Brothers and Citigroup Inc., Shiv held a wide variety of positions spanning core research in interest rate and prepayment modeling to trading a range of interest rate derivatives and mortgage-backed securities. He became Co-Head of all securitized products trading in North America in 2004 before leaving in 2008 to start DMI.He graduated from Harvard University in 1995 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, Magna Cum Laude in Applied Mathematics. He is very active in Harvard alumni activities in NY City including serving on the Schools Committee for the Greater NYC area. Shiv is very passionate about technology and is an active angel investor in technology startups
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, E-Commerce, B2B
- Seed, Funding Round, Series C
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Mitsu — Mitsu offers online therapy, mental health clinics, and corporate mental well-being programs. Science-backed care for individuals and teams.
- HappyShappy — HappyShappy is a discovery platform for lifestyle ideas and the best products curated for India. It is also a universal cart and bookmarking tool where users save ideas, products, blogs, links and much more into their Dreamboards -- to save for themselves or to help others discover their fresh ideas.
- Upswing Financial Technologies — Unlock the power of Open Finance
Sajid currently works as Managing Partner at
MyAsiaVC He attended London Business School.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- India, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
- EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
- 10 Minute School — 10 Minute School is the largest online educational platform in Bangladesh. Through our website, app, and social media, more than 10 Million+ students are accessing quality education each day to accelerate their learning.
Harpreet Singh Grover is a My home at Entrepreneur In Residence. Harpreet previously worked at CoCubes.com as a Co-Founder & CEO. He attended Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.Harpreet believes that the future of online assessments belongs to 'continuous evaluation' leading to a selection filter - till then quick and easytesting using rejection filters is a good tool. He previously worked with Inductis, a data analytics firm in the financial services domain. Harpreet graduated from IIT Bombay with a dual degree. Beyond work he is a published photographer, poet and an amateur mountaineer and follows the mantra - one life to live.
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Investment focus
- Education, Internet, Water
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Mitsu — Mitsu offers online therapy, mental health clinics, and corporate mental well-being programs. Science-backed care for individuals and teams.
- The Eat Better Company — Delicious, vegan and gluten free snacks that improve your health & keep you energized all day.
- Mingout Social Technologies — Mingout is a lifestyle and dating platform that aims to connect individuals with common interests. Started by graduates from IIM Calcutta, IIT Bombay and IIT BHU.We are building the last mile of dating - a product to tie together match-making with date planning and execution. Today, a user has to jump through hoops to complete the journey offinding a person to eventually dating and beyond. Mingout will bring together the different platforms - matchmaking, social, discovery & listing and real-time execution under one product. Our users will therefore be able to have a safe, transparent conversation while planning dates, instead of mindless swiping and dating fatigue people experience today on other apps.
Raghu is the Founder of Zolve. He is an avid reader and an encyclopedia in his own rights. After a successful 3-year stint with Feedback Ventures as a Consultant, he decided to follow his heart which craved for him to become an entrepreneur. He has degrees from IIM Ahmedabad and NITK Surathkal and hasn’t lost touch with the technical prowess fromhis days back in Texas Instruments.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- NAKAD — NAKAD operates as a fintech startup. NAKAD, with its proprietary MicroBill technology infrastructure, offers invoice discounting services to MSMEs, which were previously unavailable to them from formal channels.
- Goodmeetings — Transform your sales and customer success teams. Record calls / customer meetings, review AI-curated reels of key meeting moments, human-level summaries / notes. Coach and collaborate with meeting insights
- Method Financial — Method makes it easy for developers to embed debt repayment on their apps.
Gaurav Munjal is the Co-Founder and CEO at Unacademy.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Health Care, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Snabbit — Snabbit is a platform that connects people who want to help with housework. Snabbit provides an application for finding information on professionals in household duties, allowing users to acquire rapid and dependable domestic assistance in just a few minutes.
- BiteSpeed — Drive 10% of your Shopify store's revenue from WhatsApp & FB Messenger. Recover abandoned carts, send promotional & shipping messages. Trusted by 1500+ brands!
- infinyte.club — The ultimate wealth product for intelligent investors: track your net worth, manage public and private market investments & grow wealth across traditional & new-age assets.
Abhishek Goyal is a Co-Founder at Tracxn. He attended the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- GoRally — GoRally operates a pickleball chain.
- Slikk — Slikk is a fashion brand that aims to deliver value within seconds and drip within minutes
- ContraVault AI — Transforming Tender and RFP Management using AI
Vivek Ramaswamy is the Founder of Roivant Sciences and a Co-Founder and the Founder of Strive Asset Management. Vivek was the Founder of Genevant. He attended Yale Law School and Harvard University.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Information Technology, Mobile
- Seed, Series A
- United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Dispo — Dispo is a photo-sharing app designed to simulate the experience of using a disposable camera from the comfort of mobile phones. The app replicates the experience of taking photos on a disposable camera without a front-facing screen and develop those photos over a period of one day, thereby enabling users to create raw and authentic photos.
- Medallion — Medallion provides a network management platform for the healthcare industry. Its all-in-one licensing, credentialing, and payer enrollment platform gets rid of the logistical headaches that all too often eat up valuable time and energy. The company was founded in 2020 by Derek Lo and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
- The Happy Company ® — Our mission at Chaicup is simple: to be among India's most trusted food & beverage brands. We want to put a smile on everyone's face when they eat or drink, and to be their cup of happiness. Chaicup's vision is of simple, delicious, and sustainable foods & beverages. We leverage unique product & customer insights to marry a world-class supply chain with a fast, friendly experience for both retail and enterprise.
Gokul Rajaram is a founding partner at Marathon Management Partners and Board of Director of Niural.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Laurel — Time by Ping frees lawyers from timekeeping so they can focus on their work, and firms can understand where time is being spent.
- Toma — Toma automates customer communications and operational tasks, helping dealerships boost revenue and enhance customer experiences with a conversational AI.
- Delphi — Delphi turns your expertise into an always-on presence, so you can grow your reach, serve your audience, and lead with clarity, without burning out.
Prabhu Rangarajan is the Co-founder at M2P Fintech.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Marketplace, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Finsire — Finsire Modern finances to embrace your financial desires
- Ticket9 — Your gateway to events, from concerts to conferences. Book tickets, explore trending shows, and create unforgettable experiences on Ticket9 for free.
- The Happy Company ® — Our mission at Chaicup is simple: to be among India's most trusted food & beverage brands. We want to put a smile on everyone's face when they eat or drink, and to be their cup of happiness. Chaicup's vision is of simple, delicious, and sustainable foods & beverages. We leverage unique product & customer insights to marry a world-class supply chain with a fast, friendly experience for both retail and enterprise.
Brian Norgard is Chief Product—and team builder extraordinaire—at Tinder. Under his leadership, Tinder is the fastest growing mobile revenue company in consumer Internet history.In less than 3 years, Tinder became the top-grossing mobile app in the world, created over $11 billion dollars in market value and led to hundreds of millions ofconnections worldwide. Brian is considered one of the most authoritative voices in the dynamics surrounding subscription-based business models.As a creator of blockbuster products like Super Like, Boost, Tinder Gold, Super Likeable. Brian extinguished industry records and redefined the physics of the category. Brian's product philosophy of simple, fun and useful is utilized throughout the industry and has resulted in more than 200 million lifetime downloads. His product team is consistently lauded as world-class and best-in-industry with respect to experience design. Josh Elman of Greylock Partner stated, "Brian built the smartest business on top of an active consumer product that we have seen in ages. Maybe ever."At 25, Brian was the youngest GM/VP in the history of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp after the acquisition of his first company Newroo where he served as the GM of MySpace News and FIM Labs. In 2012 Brian built one of the fastest growing Facebook applications in history (Chill) which reached over 30MM people. Thereafter, his Kleiner Perkins funded mobile messaging application Tappy became Tinder’s first acquisition. Brian also co-founded advertising network Ad.ly which was acquired by Nestivity in 2014.A respected and savvy investor, Brian helped entrepreneurs ignite franchises from AngelList—where he was the first angel investor—to Tinder. Brian's investment vehicle, Norgard Fund, invests in startups ranging from Lyft to SpaceX. Brian graduated with honors from Brown University where he received a prestigious NCIIA Grant awarded to top collegiate innovators.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Consumer
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Maximus — Consumer health startup that maximizes masculinity using science and psychology.
- Ottr Finance — The Wallet For Everyone
- Practice — Sell your expertise online, and manage your business, all in one place.
Rohit is the Cofounder and Managing Director of Cloudnine Hospitals - India’s leading maternity, women and child care service hospitals, a role he took over after being Executive Director for 9 years. Part of the founding team of Cloudnine, Rohit has played a crucial role in the establishment and growth of the company. He oversees and is activelyinvolved in several core areas of Cloudnine including strategy and planning, digital initiatives, employee engagement amongst overseeing the operations of the organisation with the goal of making the company a national level service provider of international quality and repute.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Wellness, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Neodocs — Neodocs has created a revolutionary approach to help people understand and optimize their health through at-home assessment, personalized actions, and ongoing progress monitoring
- HexaHealth — HexaHealth is a startup that aims to build a network of hospitals across the country, bring in digital solutions for better patient care throughout the patient’s surgery life cycle, and expand its consumer base to address the information asymmetry.
- Emversity — Beyond Odds focuses on upskilling the workforce and offers support to yhe healhcare industry.
Muthukumar A is the Co-Founder of M2P Fintech.
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Investment focus
- Lending, Software, Marketplace
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Cookr — No.1 Healthy Indian Home Cooked Food Delivery|Order Biryanis, Desserts, Idly & more. Serving Bangalore, Chennai, Coimbatore & more cities. Enjoy convenient home delivery.
- Finsire — Finsire Modern finances to embrace your financial desires
- The Happy Company ® — Our mission at Chaicup is simple: to be among India's most trusted food & beverage brands. We want to put a smile on everyone's face when they eat or drink, and to be their cup of happiness. Chaicup's vision is of simple, delicious, and sustainable foods & beverages. We leverage unique product & customer insights to marry a world-class supply chain with a fast, friendly experience for both retail and enterprise.
Vaibhav Domkundwar - CEO @ Better Capital
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Investment focus
- Software, Education, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Raaz — Raaz App is a healthcare platform focused on addressing male reproductive health challenges in India
- Josh Talks — By leveraging our expertise in research and storytelling, we create exclusive content in regional languages to help brands tell their story better and reach their target audience.
- Swish — Delight delivered in 10 minutes. Get food delivered in just 10 minutes | Swish
Co-Founder at NowFloats.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Apps, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- honc — India's Car Owner's App
- Zippee — ZFW Dark Stores enables 30 Min, 2 Hour, & Same-Day deliveries for E-commerce brands through next-gen fulfillment, network of dark stores, & last-mile infrastructure across India. This capital-light approach is helping brands like Epigamia, Unilever, Rage Coffee, NOTO, and Baskin Robbins expand without upfront capital, overheads, &headaches.Our platform integrates seamlessly with all industry platforms to provide brands with complete visibility into supply-chain ops & customers: significantly improving customer loyalty, RTOs, & costs.E-commerce is becoming increasingly competitive with shifting brand loyalties. Stay ahead of the curve & be closer to your customers by offering them super-fast deliveries.If you're a D2C brand in India that wants to boost profitability & customer experiences- reach out & say hi!
- Qwk, The Convenience App — Urban life is demanding, Convenience is broken. Qwk makes convenience accessible to everyone right at their disposal.
Yuvraja C. Singh is co-founder of the DMI Group, where he is jointly responsible for all aspects of the firm’s activities.Mr. Singh brings over two decades of experience in finance to his role, with an expertise in fixed income structuring, trading and risk management. He began his career in the risk management department at CommoditiesCorporation, a leading commodity and futures trading firm, now a part of Goldman Sachs. In 1995, he moved to Wall Street, trading mortgage-backed securities at Lehman Brothers and eventually running the firm’s mortgage derivatives desk. In 2000, he took on a new challenge and followed his entrepreneurial passion, becoming partner at Compro Technologies, a small software development firm in India. In 2003, Mr. Singh returned to Wall Street and joined the Fixed Income Department at Citigroup, where as a Managing Director he oversaw the agency CMO fixed rate and IO/PO trading Desks.Mr. Singh is a graduate from Princeton University’s class of 1994, with a B.A in Economics. He currently serves on the Board of Governors of The British School in New Delhi and on the Founders Council of the MS Chadha Center for Global India at Princeton University. He lives in New Delhi with his family
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- Apps, Social, Internet
- Seed
- India
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- HappyShappy — HappyShappy is a discovery platform for lifestyle ideas and the best products curated for India. It is also a universal cart and bookmarking tool where users save ideas, products, blogs, links and much more into their Dreamboards -- to save for themselves or to help others discover their fresh ideas.
Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.
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- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, France, Brazil
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- Alpagga — Alpagga is the online marketplace for purchase and sale of decommissioned agri-food equipments.
- OTPless — Authenticate customers with WhatsApp, SMS, Email, Biometrics, and more, with a 98% conversion rate on signup and sign-in.
- Accumulator — Accumulator is a U.S. private equity firm regulated by the SEC, operating as an index-like fund covering a wide range of privately held, growth-stage tech companies.
Prasanna Sankar is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Rippling.
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- Software, Supply Chain Management, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- Togai — Launch usage based pricing models with Togai's reliable metering & billing platform. Usage based billing infrastructure built to handle scale of any size.
- AdvantageClub.ai — Advantage Club provides an AI-driven platform intended for driving employee engagement. It delivers programs that connect and benefit both the brands and an organization's clients/employees. The company intends to provide an end-to-end solution to facilitate meaningful client and employee engagement through exclusive privileges andrewards provided by its brand partners.
- The Happy Company ® — Our mission at Chaicup is simple: to be among India's most trusted food & beverage brands. We want to put a smile on everyone's face when they eat or drink, and to be their cup of happiness. Chaicup's vision is of simple, delicious, and sustainable foods & beverages. We leverage unique product & customer insights to marry a world-class supply chain with a fast, friendly experience for both retail and enterprise.
Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- India, Singapore, United States
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- Sipay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
- OTPless — Authenticate customers with WhatsApp, SMS, Email, Biometrics, and more, with a 98% conversion rate on signup and sign-in.
- CoinCRED Global — CoinCRED is a crypto exchange platform which has hundreds plus cryptocurrencies where traders can easily sell, buy, deposit and withdraw cryptocurrencies. It is a platform which gives more priority to safe and secure transactions with privacy. CoinCRED has been here for years for its known features like high speed low transaction fees P2P KYC24/7 customer support with such features, it is also known as a crypto investment platform where users can easily trade and earn profits through their user-friendly interface. From beginners to experienced, any investor or trader can begin their crypto journey with the most trusted platform, CoinCRED.
Samuel Choi
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- Apps, Social, Internet
- Seed
- India, South Korea
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- My Mabu — My Mabu is an online platform that provides used cars sales, services, and maintenance services.
- HappyShappy — HappyShappy is a discovery platform for lifestyle ideas and the best products curated for India. It is also a universal cart and bookmarking tool where users save ideas, products, blogs, links and much more into their Dreamboards -- to save for themselves or to help others discover their fresh ideas.
Beerud Sheth is the Co-Founder & CEO at Gupshup .
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- Financial Services, Software, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- India, Singapore, United States
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- Decentro — Decentro develops an API banking software platform designed to launch products in a hassle free way. The platform integrates with desired banking APIs permitting financial integrations with a few lines of code and claims to simplify the product development cycle, enabling clients to simplify the integration processes.
- Decentro — Decentro provides banking and payment APIs that make it possible to quickly construct fintech solutions like banking, payment cards, neobanking, and collections and payout services.
- ForeignAdmits — ForeignAdmits is an AI Powered CRM and Platform for Study Abroad Consultants and Student for enabling end to end Study Abroad Journey
Sweta Rau, founder of White Ventures
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Women's
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- India, Singapore, United States
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- Volopay — Volopay gives you control over your company's payments, expenses, budgets, and accounting. The best alternative for your business account. Join the hundreds of companies that trust Volopay.
- CreditDharma — Credit Dharma offers spam-free, personalised, and unbiased home loans. Get the lowest interest rate offers from the top banks and simplify your home ownership journey.
- PayGlocal Technologies — All-in-one payments solution for growing businesses. Process payments, manage risk and reduce fraud with PayGlocal.
Damandeep Singh Soni is the Chief Business Officer at Astrotalk. Previously he was the President and Chief Business Officer at GlobalBees. He holds degree from National Institute of Technology Rourkela and Indian School of Business.
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- iOS, Mobile, Social
- Angel
- India
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- Zappka — Own this domain today. We make your shopping experience easy. Friendly and quick customer service.
Ryan Valles
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- Social, E-Commerce, Information Services
- Seed
- India
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- BizzTM — BizzTM is a company that provides a variety of e-commerce categories of products through an aggregated delivery model.
Sumit Jain is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur, He started online real-estate portal commonfloor.com for property seekers in 2007. Prior to that, he used to work with Oracle. As the co-founder and CEO, Sumit is responsible for driving the strategic direction for Commonfloor.com as well as delivering on company goals Hisresult-oriented approach ensures a constant and relentless focus on end-user satisfaction. Sumit Jain finds solace in a game of billiards. The game not only relaxes him, it also helps him catch up with friends or at times, make new acquaintances.
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- Mobile Apps, Internet, FinTech
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India, Singapore
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- AdmitKard — Want to study abroad ? Get expert advice and information on colleges, courses, exams, admission, student visa, and application process to study overseas.
- Fixcraft — Fixcraft is changing the way car owners get their car repair done. Its tech enabled startup which plans to bring "Quality Service at Fair Price" to every user. Currently, the market is ruled by Authorised workshops on one end which charge exorbitant amount in the name of brand on one end and local mechanics which is a sub-standard qualitywork at lower price.
- All Is Well — AI Driven Integrated Fitness App to Unlock Sports Performance Book Demo Testimonials Jordan Gregory Head Coach, Gary Kirsten Cricket India "All Is Well App exceeded all expectations, delivering a truly exceptional experience. The professionalism of the All Is Well team was outstanding, and their dedication to knowledge sharing with GKCI coaches left me thoroughly impressed.
Kris Nair is the Founder of Kawa Space.
Ex-Founder/CEO Exseed Space, ExseedSAT 01
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- Events, Social, Software
- Seed
- India
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- Airmeet — Host highly customizable virtual and hybrid events to deliver immersive and interactive experiences to your audience. Book a demo today.
CEO & President.
An Advisor & Strategic Partner.
Cross functional Director, CEO & a high Influencer with well planned Strategic Enterprise Management.
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- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- India, United States, Singapore
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- We360.ai — We360.ai is an employee monitoring and tracking software that tracks employee's activity and enhance productivity.
- MoneyyApp — We at MoneyyApp are helping Creators to grow their businesses. The struggle of the creators trying to make a mark has been tiring, and we understand that! The inception of MoneyyApp lays the foundation for creators’ atrocities.
- Paisagrowth — Paisagrowth is a loan origination, screening, and decision automation software designed for local financial advisors.
Rajat Kumar Gupta is a prominent Indian-American businessman and former corporate officer, board director and strategic advisor to a variety of notable public- and private-sector institutions.He is the first Indian-born CEO of a global corporation and served for nearly a decade as managing director of McKinsey and Company. He was a member ofthe board of directors of Goldman Sachs, Procter and Gamble, American Airlines, Harman International, and Genpact, among others.He was also active in other public sector institutions, including co-founder of the Indian School of Business and the America India Foundation and chairman of The Global Fund for AIDS, Malaria, and TB and special advisor to the United Nations.
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- Human Resources, Mobile Apps, B2B
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India, Singapore, United States
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- Jobiak — Our recruitment technology is sophisticated, but our solution is simple: enable you to easily publish and optimize job listings on Google for Jobs.
- HireQuotient — With the vision to disrupt the hiring process for business roles globally, HireQuotient’s virtual interviewers help companies test business skills at scale in an engaging and realistic manner, saving clients millions of dollars and man-hours. It has been used by more than 30,000 candidates in over 42 countries, and generated significant timesavings for hiring organisations while improving candidate quality in interviews.
- BluSmart Mobility — Blu Smart Mobility is a provider of electric shared smart mobility platform for transportation. Blu Smart is an all-electric, shared, and smart mobility platform for ride-sharing, car-sharing, and scooter-sharing. Blu Smart is a 100% electric mobility platform that partners with electric vehicle manufactures.
Phanindra Sama is the Advisor of WestBridge Capital. He previously worked at redBus as a Founder and CEO. Phanindra Sama attended Stanford University.
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- Internet, Health Care, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, Singapore
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- Bitsila — Bitsila is an software company that allows retail shops to start and grow business through online platform.
- Punt Partners — Punt Partners is a company that provides marketing technology services. It provides results through the use of proprietary data, technology, and services.
- Billion Hearts — Did you sign-up for our beta launch?
Lalit Keshre is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Groww.
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- Financial Services, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- India, Singapore
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- FirstClub — FirstClub's mission is to become a rapid commerce-first omnichannel retailer that uses offline experience stores to promote the quality of its items. FirstClub's goal is to create a platform that serves customers and offers brands a unique opportunity to connect with affluent homes.
- Truva — Truva is a proptech company that specializes in home buying and selling. We have deep expertise in Powai and provide an unparallel customer experience when it comes to buying apartments that are up for resale. We have multiple properties in Hiranandani, Lake Homes, Nahar and Raheja Vihar
- Theranautilus Private Limited — Theranautilus, is a nanorobotics company, translating the result of a decade of research and development in nanorobotics from laboratory to clinics. We are a hardware company specializing in instruments for fabricating nanorobots, safe deployment of nanorobots in living systems, and mechanisms to maneuver them to their target inside the bodyremotely.
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